Our Advisers
The Institute is honored to draw from the experience and wisdom of advisers who contribute to our work from across the globe, through academics, science, entrepreneurship, investment, and activism. This is a partial list of active participants.
Paul Alivisatos, Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Sara Boettiger, Founder and CEO of Global Access to Technology for Development and Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley
Peter De Mare, Energy and Sustainability Expert, Honeywell
Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow, Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, UC Berkeley
Harrison Fraker, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design, former Dean of the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
J. Keith Gilless, Dean, College of Natural Resources, UC Berkeley
Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute
Henry Izumizaki, The Russell Family Foundation and Threshold Group
Daniel Kammen, Professor in the Energy and Resources Group Energy and Resources Group and Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Joel Makower, Chairman and Executive Editor, Green Biz Group
Manuel Maqueda, Founder, Plastic Pollution Coalition
Carolina Miranda, MBA, CEO and Founder, Cultivating Capital
Richard Norgaard, Professor, Energy and Resources Group, UC Berkeley
Crespin Pemberton-Pigott, New Dawn Engineering, Swaziland, South Africa
Bruce Pickering, Executive Director, Asia Society, Northern California
Kavita N. Ramdas, Ford Foundation representative in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
Vincent Siciliano, President, New Resource Bank
Jasminka Sohinger, Professor of European Studies, University of Zagreb
John Wilbanks, Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Lyuba Zarsky, Professor of Economics, Monterey Institute of International Studies
Jane Zhang, President of Silk Wings Aviation, Beijing; Board member, Pacific Environment